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In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.


Adlai E. Stevenson II

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In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
GEORGE ROBERT STEPHANOPOLOUS In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.
GEORGE CARLIN In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S...
GEORGE TAKEI Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
JOE E. LEWIS Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Ste...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso...
WILLIAM SANDERSON In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
PAT PAULSEN To become a better you, hurry up and take risks.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democra...
SANDER LEVIN Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the tru...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the par...
DAVID PIETRUSZA To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his ad...
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BOB MOFFITT You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.
OPRAH WINFREY Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging a...
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LEN LICHTENFELD I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.
BELLA THORNE This is a phenomenon that is taking over, and potentially e-mail can become the number one means of ...
TIM WHITE It's a mixed bag. What was it that Adlai Stevenson said? I think he quoted Abraham Lincoln when he s...
JACK FROST Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice ...
JOHNNY CARSON A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a presid...
DICK CHENEY We think the settlement process is a better way to go. You can get creative. You can take risks.
DAVE KVAMME We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We stand the risk of backwardness, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
RICHARD M. NIXON I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe...
ADLAI E STEVENSON Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to s...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now wit...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can ga...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding,...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a stand...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON A hungry man is not a free man.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranqu...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air an...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you not...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nature is neutral.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in ano...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Freedom rings where opinions clash.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy o...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and ma...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of thi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyrann...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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ADLAI E STEVENSON I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in openi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any e...
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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ADLAI STEVENSON The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
ADLAI STEVENSON Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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ADLAI STEVENSON I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life...
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ADLAI STEVENSON All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
ADLAI STEVENSON It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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ADLAI STEVENSON To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a...
ADLAI STEVENSON There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON In quiet places, reason abounds.
ADLAI STEVENSON A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
ADLAI STEVENSON We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
ADLAI STEVENSON The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can g...
ADLAI STEVENSON I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the ...
ADLAI STEVENSON Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI STEVENSON With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire t...
ADLAI STEVENSON We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our ars...
ADLAI STEVENSON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech...
ADLAI STEVENSON The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
ADLAI STEVENSON We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
ADLAI STEVENSON Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
ADLAI STEVENSON A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
ADLAI STEVENSON Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.